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Todd County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To increase access to arts and cultural heritage programming at the Todd County Fair by enhancing a stage, improving the fine arts display area, hosting an array of demonstrations, and featuring an Irish band and theater group.

Todd
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Blue Earth County
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680

1. Pioneer Photography by Doug Ohman - photography of historical and agricultural themes., 2. I Polka Band - old time music from local group., 3. The Coyotes - blue grass music from local group., 4. Church Cabin repair - Replica cabin of 1839 needing new logs and repair.

Blue Earth
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Carlton County Fair
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680

We will use our Legacy funds to hire Emotion in Motion as one of our fair entertainers. This is a Minnesota-based company that will give fairgoers a chance to paint their own canvases. Emotion in Motion has their own unique techniques to teach those that want to participate in the painting class.

Carlton
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Mahnomen County Fair
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680

Mahnomen County is only 583 square miles in size, but according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the county contains three of the four biomes: Coniferous Forest, Deciduous Forest, and Prairie Grasslands. Some of the land in Mahnomen County is used for farming, but trees are also an important natural resource. The Mahnomen County Agricultural Society would like to provide access to Minnesota's Agricultural, Historical and Cultural Heritage through a Lumberjack show and camp.

Mahnomen
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Rice County Fair
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680

La Raza de Mexico will provide Hispanic music. Faribault is home to many Hispanics. This is a way we can share their cultural ways. Wooden Circle demonstrates how items were made by hand.

Rice
Recipient
Wright County Fair
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680

Will be able to demonstrate to fairgoers how lumber was harvested and used.

Wright
Recipient
Todd County Fair
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,680

This year we are planning to participate in the legacy project by offering some demonstrations to educate the public in farming: a model cow that the public can milk; process of sheep shearing along with use of wool, including a child activity; demonstrations from the local Heritage Club making rope, shelling corn; show a variety of old motors and possible antique machinery items. Glass blower to present two days at our fair and demonstrate the making of fine glass products.

Todd
Recipient
Blue Earth County
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

We will be looking at the way the early pioneers lived, worked and enjoyed themselves in the early days of Minnesota. Repairing a log cabin on the grounds, showing how metal work was done and explaining how early lumberjack camps worked will be a great educational experience. Also the sound of the music of the early descendants of the area will be greatly enjoyed.

Blue Earth
Recipient
Carlton County Fair
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

In 2024 we will bring Tricia & the Toonies to perform at the fair. They will be showcasing their ENVIRO-Family-Fun Show on August 16th and 17th.

Carlton
Recipient
Rice County Fair
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

Three projects would be supported with this grant:

1 - East Knoll Heritage Village Demonstrations - Not just a pottery demonstration. With 45 years of pottery experience of small and large pottery, they make pots and entertain the visitors with demonstrations. They use a replica of a wooden foot-powered treadle wheel, the kind used in the USA and Europe before before we had electricity.

2 - Wooden Circle Wood Cutting Demonstrations - they work together with the pottery demonstrations.

3 - A performance of a traditional Mexican Band: La Raza de Mexico.

Rice
Recipient
Mahnomen County Fair
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

The Mahnomen County Agricultural Society's Legacy project is to purchase a sound system and bleachers for our free stage used for local artists, cultural demonstrations, and other events open to the public.

Mahnomen
Recipient
Todd County Fair
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

We will have local bands entertain our fairgoers.

Todd
Recipient
Wright County Fair
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$3,755

We will have a Paul Bunyan educator, the Wagon Wheelers Band and antique tractor display at our fair.

Wright
Recipient
Blue County Agricultural Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

Provide a quality sound system to enhance performances and bring in quality acts on the free stage.

Blue Earth
Recipient
Mahnomen County Fair
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To increase access to arts and cultural heritage programming at the Mahnomen County Fair by creating a performance space for ACH events. Funds would be used for stage construction, lighting and sound.

Mahnomen
Recipient
Wright County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,009

To present the history of agriculture in Wright County through exhibits of equipment from the past to present, video presentations, and a demonstration of food preparation in the 19th century.

Wright
2025 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2024 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2023 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2022 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$135,000
2021 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2020 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$150,000
2019 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2018 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2017 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2016 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$110,000
Fund Source

Funding supports an Irrigation Specialist to develop guidance and provide education on irrigation and nitrogenbest management practices (BMPs). In this position, Dr. Vasu Sharma provides direct support to irrigators onissues of irrigation scheduling and soil water monitoring. She is collaborating on the development of new irrigationscheduling tools that help irrigators manage water and nitrogen resources more precisely. These tools help reducenitrogen leaching losses in irrigated cropping systems.

Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Big Stone
Blue Earth
Brown
Cass
Chippewa
Clay
Crow Wing
Dakota
Douglas
Goodhue
Grant
Hubbard
Isanti
Kandiyohi
Kittson
Lac qui Parle
Lincoln
Marshall
Meeker
Morrison
Mower
Norman
Otter Tail
Pipestone
Polk
Pope
Red Lake
Renville
Rice
Sherburne
Stearns
Stevens
Swift
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Washington
Watonwan
Wright
Recipient
Minnesota Department of Agriculture
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$75,000

Native to the western United States and Canada, mountain pine beetle is considered the most devastating forest insect in North America. Trees usually die as a result of infestation and an unprecedented outbreak in the west is currently decimating pine forests there. While mountain pine beetle is not presently believed to reside in Minnesota, there are risks posed by an expanding species range resulting from warming climate and the potential for accidental introduction via lumber imports from infested areas.

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Beltrami
Benton
Carlton
Cass
Chisago
Clearwater
Cook
Crow Wing
Fillmore
Houston
Hubbard
Isanti
Itasca
Kanabec
Kittson
Koochiching
Lake
Lake of the Woods
Mahnomen
Marshall
Mille Lacs
Morrison
Mower
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Pine
Polk
Ramsey
Roseau
Sherburne
St. Louis
Stearns
Todd
Wabasha
Wadena
Washington
Winona
Recipient
Perpich Center for Arts Education
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$850,000
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$850,000
2014 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$795,000
2015 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$750,000

The Perpich Arts Integration Network of Teachers (PAINT) fosters collaborative arts integration in Minnesota through K-12 teacher professional development and funding to schools. With Perpich Center facilitation, teacher teams develop and implement arts-integrated lessons and units. PAINT program components include:

Aitkin
Anoka
Becker
Carlton
Carver
Cass
Clay
Cook
Dodge
Douglas
Fillmore
Freeborn
Goodhue
Grant
Hennepin
Houston
Itasca
Lake
Mower
Olmsted
Otter Tail
Ramsey
St. Louis
Steele
Stevens
Wabasha
Wilkin
Winona
Recipient
Blue Earth County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To preserve the 1861 school house by reinforcing the foundation, repairing the roof to preserve the artifacts inside the school, and restoring the interior walls and ceilings. During the fair, the Blue Earth County Historical Society will dress in period costumes to entertain and educate fairgoers, and allow visitors to interact with school desks, maps, slate chalkboards, and school books from the era the school was in operation.

Blue Earth
Recipient
Rice County Ag Society, Inc.
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$50,000

To construct the Arts and Cultural Celebration Center at the Rice County fairgrounds. This heated, year round and handicap accessible building with ADA bathrooms and presentation stage will be home to arts presentations by regional individuals and performances by county arts and theater organizations.

Rice
Recipient
Rice County Ag Society, Inc.
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To build several large World War II displays in order to educate youth on military history.

Rice
Recipient
Rice County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To engage children in various activities by providing marionette shows to teach the history of marionettes, and a spelling bee.

Rice
Recipient
Carlton County Agricultural and Industrial Association
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,368

To purchase a portable sound system to be used at stage. System will be used for arts and education demonstrations and for performances.

Carlton
Recipient
Wright County Agricultural Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$11,800

To increase Wright County Fair's capacity to host more performing arts programming by improving stage sound and lighting. With the enhancements, the fair will be able to provide the public with more diverse programming beyond traditional commercial musical performers, and schedule more programming by allowing evening performances.

Wright
Recipient
Carlton County Agricultural and Industrial Association
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To bring new history and arts experiences to the Carlton County Fair. Projects will include building a structure with retractable sides to better display a historical Steam Engine, and hosting the non-profit community theater group, County Seat Theater.

Carlton
Recipient
Todd County Agricultural Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To increase access to Todd county history by improving ventilation and lighting in the Todd County Historical Society’s Satellite Museum.

Todd
Recipient
Wright County Agricultural Society
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount
$7,783

To offer the opportunity for fairgoers to experience and participate in a variety of cultural performances and historical presentations. Wright County has a diverse population and a rich history in agriculture and culture, but is moving toward a more suburban based population. The fair is focusing on providing experiences which will expose fairgoers to diverse historical and cultural experiences.

Wright